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Thanks for the recap in my stead. Sounds like an interesting one. It feels weird to not be out there, though I must say I don't miss not experiencing the awkwardness created by "I'll Fight" guy. Fwiw, that new song with the repeated "You're in love again" is called Now And Then, at least according to the good folks at Wilcoworld. Jeff played it a few times on the solo tour he did in October. Interesting about having the actual setlist that he was executing and that he did an actual encore, although it's nice that Sammy and Spencer sang with their dad on AROAW. Wonder if they'll join on at leas

I've got to catch a flight home pretty soon, so I won't get a chance to sit down and write much about this one until I get back, but I figure I'll at least just start the thread with a few words and the setlist and then circle back. But suffice it to say, as one friend actually did during the show tonight — and which Jeff apparently overheard — this was a Wilco run that we didn't want to end. You mean the band can't just keep traveling around to cool cities playing multi-night, multi-set, no-repeat shows with 30-plus songs all the time? Well, that's not fair... But as with any goo

I doubt that the weather conditions had anything to do with the setlist Wilco put forth on the middle night of its "Winterlude On The Road" stint in St. Paul, but Mother Nature played much nicer to those of us waiting outside for an extended period of time for the doors to open. Certainly veterans of upper Midwest winters would have hardly batted an eye. But whatever your tolerance level for cold and snow/ice, this Saturday night special by Jeff and Co. was almost guaranteed to send you home with some warm rock 'n' roll feelings in your heart (and perhaps also a little sweat on your brow).

Haha, point taken. Thanks for checking out these inane ramblings, whenever you do so. I will admit it was much balmier (read: only about actual freezing) on Night 2 versus Night 1. But I was only going by Jeff's comment that it was like "a thousand below zero." Well, that and my numb toes...

#WaitingForThatA #AllDoneNow

For the final stop on this "Winterlude On The Road" series, the Wilco Express rolled into the familiar confines of the Palace Theatre on a frigid mid-December weekend in the Twin Cities (is there any other kind?) and rolled out the first part of what figures to be another epic trilogy of no-repeat, wide-ranging shows that have characterized this brief but fruitful tour. As always, it will be interesting to find out what the next two night have in store. Unlike the previous two stops in Austin and Tulsa, Jeff and his bandmates have brought a Winterlude-esque experience to the Palac

I'll have that TA now... Or maybe just a cuppa (TeA) to ward off the chill of Minnesota?

That makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification!

Well, Wilco Wednesday certainly didn't disappoint. That was the kind of barnburner of a show we hoped for when Wilco announced that it would play two nights at the storied Cain's Ballroom as part of this brief "Winterlude On The Road" tour, and while Night 1 was a fine performance, Night 2 really saw a little of everything — from wild jams and wonky notes to reinvented tunes and fan favorites, from a rowdy audience member apparently getting removed but ultimately being allowed back in to an adorable young fan in the front row literally receiving the microphone off of Jeff's stand from the fron

Coming off a remarkable kickoff to this brief "Winterlude On The Road" tour in Austin last week, in which Wilco performed 98 different songs over the course of three shows, it seemed only natural to wonder what — other than the venue and the days of the week — would be different when the scene shifted to another favorite old stomping ground: Cain's Ballroom. Would the band play anything that it hadn't in Austin? Which songs wouldn't make the cut, given the two-night run in Tulsa (versus three in Austin)? Would the energy from the audience be the same? Would Jeff put on a jacket again? You know

Yet again, I had to Google to understand what you were talking about. To quote the esteemed Scott McOi, I'm not bitter. #NotAtAll #JustALot

Anyone else notice that April 26th date as part of the Moon Crush Pink Moon weekend in Florida has disappeared from both Wilcoworld and the Topeka sites and seems like it might get scrapped? When you Google "Wilco April 26 Moon Crush," this is the first thing that comes up. It's a link to Wilcoworld, but it goes to a dead page: 26 April 2025 | Miramar Beach, FL | Moon Crush Pink Moon Apr 26, 2025 — Wilco - Tour - going to cancel 12/2 ~ 26 April 2025 | Miramar Beach, FL | Moon Crush Pink Moon. This was the announced festival, as reported by Relix back in August.

Approximately 15 people will be counting on you!

I shall be in attendance and endeavour to scratch your proverbial itch as much much as possible, O Tatlock. Not sure if Jeff and Emmylou will wind up doing anything together — here's hoping — but one of Jeff's performances is already listed as "Tweedy Creek," so we can safely guess that there will be some interesting stuff to come out of the presumed collab between Jeff and Nickel Creek.

Unfortunately I'm not able to make it this year, so I'll be looking forward to your reports. Thanks in advance for holding down the fort.

And just like that — 98 different songs, six full sets, three encores and a partridge in a pear tree — the first chapter of Wilco's "Winterlude On The Road" experiment drew to a close tonight. I'd say it pretty much was a resounding success. As Jeff mentioned each night in Austin, the idea behind this relatively brief tour was to bring the type of unique shows that the band has played in Chicago over the years under the Winterlude moniker to some different markets. These were special shows in which the band treated fans to such achievements as playing 100 unique songs over five nig

If only! #GongShow

Yeah, I get your point. I guess what I was trying to suggest with what I wrote about Someone Else's Song and just sort of that Being There-era in general is not so much that the band wasn't playing well, but there seemed to be — at least listening to some of the recordings from that time — more of a sense of irreverence or something. And I guess that's sort of what I took from the version of SES from tonight's show in Austin.

When you undertake a series of shows in which you promise not to repeat a song over the course of three nights and play some that you haven't in quite some time, I think it's safe to assume that a certain amount of planning has gone into the endeavor. There's picking the songs you want to play, then rehearsing the ones you don't know as well and of course dividing them up as evenly as possible over the course of the run, so that each show has its fair share of so-called "hits" as well as deep cuts that will satisfy both die-hard fans and more casual attendees alike — whether they are going to

Oh I was at that Miami show, too, and you're right about the set break. But I'm not sure it was intended that way, just that they hadn't figured out yet what they were doing. Haha. Anyway, I figured this setlist (and the prospect of more) might get you out of frigid Chicago. See ya in, uh, St. Paul? Lol. Yeah, exactly.

Well, in terms of audacity and endurance, tonight might not quite have been the legendary "An Evening With..." Wilco run of March and April 2010 — when the band played a series of epic, extended shows that included a mid-set segue into and out of an acoustic run of songs — but it came pretty darned close. Kicking off a run of seven shows in which the stated goal was to take the "Winterlude" concerts that Jeff and his bandmates have performed in Chicago over the years on the road to some different places, the first of three nights in Austin featured two separate sets (and a short encore) that a

Finally finished this one! OK, carry on.

Once again your dedication to my blather has haunted me since I finally managed to finish this one. But I had to pull the scroll out of its cylinder to do so, thus accounting for any amendment from your previous quotation(s).

For those of you following along at home, and I realize that number is probably in the low teens at this point, I offer at last this account of the final performance on Jeff's October solo jaunt across these United States. If you'll recall in my previous recap of the penultimate show on the tour, I suggested that for as ideal a venue as the Guild Theatre might have seemed, its intimacy and acoustics could sometimes lead to a too-sterile atmosphere that isn't the sort I prefer for this kind of show. Well...a corollary to that theory is that the venue can also fall victim to a particular kind of

Let me just say up top that I think I finally put my finger on why I've felt slightly uneasy, or at least not quite at home, since first setting foot in the Guild Theatre a couple of nights ago. And it's not the reserved seat/general admission standing situation I mentioned in my recap of Night 1. Those of us who bought GA tickets and wound up standing behind the five rows of seats on the main floor had a great view and even if we wanted to be closer to the stage or thought we would be, there really wasn't too much to complain about on that front. So what's the issue with a room I'